Kennedy Administration - Family Life
Family Life
As a young man Kennedy enjoyed bachelor life and earned a reputation as a ladies' man. In January 1953, when he was 35 and a newly elected U.S. senator, Kennedy began seriously courting 23-year-old Jacqueline (Jackie) Bouvier, then a reporter for a Washington newspaper. Born in Southampton, New York, accustomed to wealth and privilege, she was educated at fashionable finishing schools, Vassar College, the Sorbonne in Paris, France, and George Washington University. Attractive and demure, she possessed a biting wit and independent spirit that both complemented and challenged Kennedy. Their spectacular Newport, Rhode Island, wedding that September was hailed as the social event of the year.
Although a legal, voting resident of Boston, Massachusetts, where he maintained a small apartment on Bowdoin Street, Kennedy never lived there and visited rarely. When Congress was in session John and Jacqueline Kennedy lived in...
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